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HARVESTER EAKE. No. 255,476. Y Patented Mar.28,1882.

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RICHARD T. TUTTLE, OF PERRY, NEl/V YORK.

HARVESTER-RAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,476, dated March 28, 1882.

Application filed December 21, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, R. T. TUTTLE, of Perry, Wyoming county, New York, have invented certain Improvements in Harvester-Rakes, ot' which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improved means of securing the sweep-board to the rake of a harvester; and it consists in a metallic fasten! ing adapted tosecure the parts together, as hereinafter more fully described. l

In the accompanying drawings, representing my improvements in harvester-relies, Figure 1 is a front view ofa portion ota harvesterrake embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a side View, and Fig. 3 a plan view, of the metallic fastening detached. Fig. 4is an inverted view of a portion ot' the rake. Fig. 5 is a vertical section ofthe rake on the line .r x, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is an end view ot' the metallic fastening detached.

My improvementsin harvester-rakesare represented in the accompanying drawings, in which A is the sweep-board, B the rake-arm, h the teeth, and C the metallic clip or fastening by which the s`weep-boardis attached to the' rake.

The sweep-board is secured in place on the arm B and against the teeth by means of the metallic fastening or clamp O, which consists of a straight bar having an eye, c, at one end, through which the screw, rivet, or nail b passes, by which the fastening is secured to the arm B,

and provided at the other end with two arms (No model.)

or prongs, a a, which are bent around the` teeth below the sweep-board A, as shown in Fig. 4, for the purpose of holding the sweepboard in place against the teeth. The arms a c are cast straight,as shown in Fig. 6, and in the dotted lines a', Fig. 4, and are bent around the teeth at the time the fastening is applied to the rake,l as represented by the full lines in Fig. 4. A pointed spur, e, may be formed on the inside ofthe fastening, which spur is driven into the" sweep-boardand assists in holding the latter in its proper place. f

My improved fastening is cheap to manufacture, being cast, is easily applied to the rakes ot' any form of harvesters, and adapts itself readily to any thickness of sweep board or any2 size of rake-teeth. Myimproved fasteningmay also be readily tightened, in case it becomes loose, by bending the arms c a about the teeth.'u

I claim- 1. The combination ottherake-arm 1?,swe-ep-l hoard A, teeth h, and malleable fastening C, provided with arms c a, adapted to be bent around the teeth, substantially as and for the RICHARD T. TUTTLE.

' Witnesses:

GEO. B. SELDEN, H. G. PHILLiPs. 

